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A new feature is coming in Outlook which will make some of you very happy indeed... If you have been using Outlook with Office 365 and have added cloud attachments, i.e. the default up to now, by mistake then this…

I know that sound like a weird title right? How can you leverage Microsoft Online Subscriptions on-premises? After all Office 365 is in the cloud? What is not obvious is that a number of the subscriptions actually do grant you…

Most of us know that there was an offer from Microsoft to upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 back in 2016, however most of us don't know that you can still get a 'free' upgrade today! Microsoft announced a new…

Since Microsoft Exchange 2007 Resource Mailboxes have been a feature of Microsoft Exchange. Overall it appears that Room and Resource mailboxes are a feature that has matured over the previous versions of Microsoft Exchange Server and now receive just a…

Exchange Federation has been around a long time, but of course more recently any time you talk about integrating with Office 365 people start going down the hybrid route. What if you don't want hybrid though, what if all you…

As part of Group Policy Management guidelines from the Centre of Internet Security (CIS), the recommendation is to turn on Firewall logging on all Windows Servers, and to save each profile to their own log file. Configuring this in Group…

For about 18 months now I have been in a world of pain. Up front I want to say that Microsoft do an incredible job at this really. This is complicated stuff I am sure, connecting all these disparate systems,…

As you will probably know, a few years ago Microsoft changed MCSE so that the qualifications would no longer have a version number in the name but instead they required a recertification every three years. This was good on one…

Domino has its own internal processing or ideas on how it implements TTL for DNS entries on SMTP Connection documents (where "Connection type:" is SMTP), which is frustrating as it doesnt always conform to what is out in the wild…

Last weekend I undertook a Migration from one Office 365 tenant to another - manually. Whilst we normally work in the enterprise space migrating thousands of users, this was a special case project undertaken deliberately as a manual process end…

Happy New Year to you all, 2017 is here! I'm spending the first week of 2017 catching up on the 4th week of course work... So far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks…

Wow the first two weeks have whizzed on by, in fact together with my normal workload I'm struggling to keep up with the pace! So far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on…

Nero Blanco IT Limited is a company initially formed by highly skilled and experienced independent contractors who saw a problem with how large technology migration and consolidation programs were undertaken.